Category Archives: World

NORTH KINGSTOWN, R.I. - A founding editor at USA Today has died in Rhode Island at age 91. John Quinn’s family says he died Tuesday of natural causes at Roberts Health Center. Quinn is survived ...

WASHINGTON - The Education Department’s civil rights chief apologized Wednesday for saying 90 per cent of campus sexual assault claims stem from both participants being drunk and that the rights...

BOSTON - A man who inspired the ice bucket challenge to raise millions of dollars for Lou Gehrig’s disease research has been released from the hospital. Pete Frates’ family posted on their...

HOUSTON - If the Trump administration gets its way, U.S. citizens boarding international flights will have to submit to a face scan, a plan privacy advocates call a step toward a surveillance state. T...

LONDON - Household incomes in Britain are being squeezed even though unemployment has fallen to its lowest level since the mid-1970s, official figures showed Wednesday, conflicting developments that a...

LONDON - A gay British retiree has won a legal battle to secure the same occupational pension rights for his husband that a wife would enjoy. Five judges at the Supreme Court, Britain’s highest ...

SAN FRANCISCO - Apple will open a data centre in mainland China with ties to the country’s government, raising concerns about the security of iCloud accounts that store personal information tran...

WASHINGTON - The U.S. has reached the Trump administration’s limit of 50,000 refugees for this budget year. That won’t stop some additional refugees from entering the United States in the ...

URBANA, Ill. - A grand jury has indicted a 28-year-old in the abduction of a University of Illinois scholar from China, confirming a decision by federal agents to arrest and charge Brendt Christensen ...

RALEIGH, N.C. - For an elite band of U.S. Marines known as the Raiders, the fiery military plane crash this week in Mississippi represents a second devastating blow during training in less than three ...